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Of course, after the news of her passing, before her body was even cold, people from all political persuasions started to frantically argue about the timetable for filling her seat.
Please forgive me for a brief moment of civility: Statement from the President on the Passing of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Today, our Nation mourns the loss of a titan of the law. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served more than 27 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States—notably just the second woman to be appointed to the Court. She was a loving wife to her late husband, Martin, and a dedicated mother to her two children. Renowned for her brilliant mind and her powerful dissents at the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg demonstrated that one can disagree without being disagreeable toward one’s colleagues or different points of view. Her opinions, including well-known decisions regarding the legal equality of women and the disabled, have inspired all Americans, and generations of great legal minds. A fighter to the end, Justice Ginsburg battled cancer, and other very long odds, throughout her remarkable life. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Ginsburg family and their loved ones during this difficult time. May her memory be a great and magnificent blessing to the world. Statement from the President on the Passing of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg OK, carry on........ |
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and if you think the President himself wrote that...
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Especially that weird one where he ran out onstage and yelled "I AM IRON MAN!" Or was that all just a hallucination (and maybe a different Favreau)? SI
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We'll see Trump's classiness on display when he skips and tweets through the funeral.
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She was probably toast before this, but Collins is dead now that GOP senators are gleefully saying this future nominee will kill Roe v Wade. Either she backs them and further alienates more moderate voters or she calls for a delay and the Trumpers stay home. Now she'll have to settle for a career as a multi-million dollar lobbyist.
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But in the past there was a modicum of attachment to the person holding the office.
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They should because those are the rules the GOP wants to play by.
Question is will the Dems do it? They have to realize that the continued changing landscape and population is trending in their favor. Who cares what the old, white, “Christian” GOP guard has to say.
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Stop respecting rules your opponents do not respect, Dems.
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Hmm I use to think and say a few years ago and when the Tea Party R's look on the ropes in summer of 2016 that we could breed out these ass holes in this country with more liberals being born and educated but just seeing all the Latinos supporting Trump even after what he has said and done gives me pause. Demographics do appear to be trending in the Dems way over the next 50 years but if the R's win this time and get a super majority with 6-3 in the SC they can really alter the very fabric of the country and I fear divert our countries trajectory as a land of immigrants to something more racially like Norway eventually. |
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Collins said today the winner of the election should make the supreme court appointment.
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Gotta go full 15, and the filibuster is completely dead forever.
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I made the mistake of reading the comments on FB's shitty weaksauce two-line, text-only response to RGB's death.
Between the fucking morons who had no idea who she is, the mouthbreathing women screaming about unborn babies and personally blaming RGB for them, and the white dude jackassery, my block list added another 50 names before I had to stop and risk a stroke from the mass stupidity and callousness I was reading. I don't want to return to the bitter, all-encompassing misanthropy of my 20s. It took me almost two decades to get rid of it. I can't fall back into that trap again.
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It's interesting to me that the Republican line is that NOW the court is deadlocked at 4. Meaning they're casting Roberts off, painting him as a liberal, and saying we need to take the advantage now. Strategically, for the layman and ignorant party voter, it's a good strategy.
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I just want to add a great big, stupendous, thank you to all the voters who couldn't see that the entire outcome of the 2016 election was about SCOTUS. The whole thing. So to everyone who is really outraged, and really up in arms about all this shit, but you didn't vote for Clinton, thank you, for being principled and short sighted. You have destroyed the country that I thought I lived in.
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It's all nice and theoretical how the Dems will surely pick up more than 4 senate seats(accounting for Jones losing). Isn't Biden winning and still being down 51-49 more than plausible? Maybe you get Colorado, Arizona, and North Carolina.
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Maine is the other one that looks like it could flip. Iowa is a toss up but Ernst might be helped by the court opening. Georgia and Montana are other possibilities.
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If Biden wins by 3 or 4 points, a GOP senate is more likely. If Biden wins 7-9 points, it's hard to see that happening without the Dems also taking the Senate.
Split ticket voting seems to be happening more often in the Trump years, but it still doesn't happen a lot.
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I posted this in the general thread, but it seems to fit better here now.
The Senate’s Rural Skew Makes It Very Hard For Democrats To Win The Supreme Court | FiveThirtyEight
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Interesting set of options they mention here for the Dems if they can get the presidency and control the House and Senate.
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You're welcome. Principled yes, short-sighted no. And the people destroying the country are the people actually destroying the country. I.e. in this case we're talking people who voted for Trump, supported him while he's in office, Trump himself, etc. Doesn't apply to people who have opposed him, regardless of what candidate they chose instead. I'd also suggest that what we have here is the continuation of a decades-long trend. It didn't start with Trump, and it's not likely to end with him. Speaking of which, let's say Democrats expand SCOTUS to 15. What do they do if in 2024, or 2034, or whenever Republicans get power again and expand it to 21 or whatever? Is there a plan for where that ends? Last edited by Brian Swartz : 09-20-2020 at 03:05 PM. |
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It might, I mean, why should anyone be concerned about the world of future consequences anymore? We were told that only today matters. Governance, pragmatism and future planning are weak subordinates now to power.
My point is that it doesn't end. It will never end. You cannot count on one side to attempt to consider all those things, while the other side simply plays for today. So yeah, bring on the 50 person supreme court, which reduces its clout and acceptance, since it's all political now. And while we're at it, let's dissolve the Senate, reinforce the complete and total authority of the executive, jail political opponents, nationalize the media (so it can finally be fair), eliminate immigration, declare states that don't fall in line enemies of the state, and withdraw all funding to them across the board, allow any 'militia' to be federalized with complete protection in the name of law and order. You could go on. Why not? We could make america great again. When one side decides that power is more important than the overall health and impact of it's choices you don't leave it up to someone else to try and fix it. You burn that motherfucker to the ground until nobody can take it anymore and start over again.
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To my mind, the point is that if you don't care about future consequences then there's little point in caring what Trump is doing now either. The only reason to care is if you think he is hurting something worth saving. If you decide it's not worth saving, then the only reason to be more than mildly annoyed is the fact that he's the one doing it and not somebody more to your line of thinking.
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2 names have emerged as possible replacements. Don't really know how qualified they are.
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I would rather see fire fought with fire. I am so tired feeling shit on politically. I guess we should just give in and give up. There is no ethical end point that can't be crossed anymore. Can you not see the direction of thought that the country is heading in? I know you do. You're a functional, beyond logical, emotionless thinker. At some point you have to see the manipulation at hand and the threats that it poses. Simply saying, "hey, it's been going on a long time, and we just need to accept it" isn't really good enough. We knew the government lied to perpetuate the Vietnam war and we still have people who think it was a good and valuable endeavor. If we simply accept that those things are unavoidable, and that every person is untrustworthy, and that we should expect them to do bad, manipulative things when they are in power, then we've clearly lost. The only savior at that point will be an authoritarian dictator. This game plan has been the forte of the Russians to destabilize the country for a long time, and now it seems like enough people here have bought into it. There are failed governments world wide. Ours is simply on the path and one side is helping on the way at light speed.
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I'm sorry, I legitimately don't even know what your point is anymore. It seems to me you are arguing my case.
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This is quite close to what I spent the last couple of posts saying. It is what fighting fire with fire leads to. I'm not saying we should accept things as they are - I accepted a long time ago that my opinions are a minority but I definitely don't approve of the direction. Continuing to scale up packing SCOTUS seats (or whatever tactic) with no endgame in sight will end in that authoritarian future you're describing here. |
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Barrett is scary as a SC Justice and would be the polar opposite of RBG.
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How so? I can't say I know anything about her.
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She's a strict Catholic that believes a man is the head of a household and a woman's place is behind her man. She's also outright hostile to Roe v Wade. If you wanted to shit on RBG's legscy she's the perfect nominee. |
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Belonging to a fringe church that literally had the lead female advisors calls "handmaids" means the protests write themselves
My wife has taken to calling her Serena Joy (which would probably mean something if I had read The Handmaid's Tale) SI
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IMO, the best scenario is that both parties follow norms. This is far and away my preference.
The second best scenario is that neither parties follows norms. It's bad, but has the potential to end in a MAD stalemate where both parties legally enshrine some norms and decide to honor others. The worst scenario is one side honoring norms while the other ignores them. There's no end game for that scenario. There's no point to ever surrender because they can just wait until they are in power again knowing that the other party won't do much of anything to hinder their long-term plans.
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Are you calling Catholicism a "fringe church"?
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Per wiki it's more of a religious group which happens to be made up prinarily of Catholics.
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See, and here's an example of a question that I think is disingenuous. There's no way NobodyHere thinks that's what SI was saying. It's trollish nonsense. I mean, if he really thinks that's what SI was saying, then he's a moron who can't parse simple sentence structures. Since I don't think that, then he must be trolling.
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Not really a church, but more of a community of faith called the People of Praise. Many members are Catholic, but it isn't substitute for the Catholic church. A gross simplification is that it's a mix of Catholicism and charismatic traditions.
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Maybe instead of assuming one's intentions you should just ask the person's belief is. You're going to have to explain to me with your superior intellect how I should not have inferred SI's response implies that the Catholic Church is a "fringe church" because I'm apparently a moron. By the way, do the people that object to Barret being a judge based on her religion plan on voting for Biden?
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Especially after posts 92 and 94, you are just doubling down on the troll
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I don't see posts listed by number, which ones are your referring to?
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Yes, Catholicism. One of the oldest, largest, and most well known religions in the world is a fringe church? (I guess that makes my denomination of 70-odd million, which was founded a mere 500 years ago when a guy nailed 95 complaints to their door, a tiny cult) SI
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So what were you referring to?
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